Wednesday, July 22, 2009 ; ♥
Eating Healthy Snacks.
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Many Women Encounter This;
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Personal Opinion By; Atikah :D
From my own personal opinion about eating well, I honestly think that good advice for eating well is mostly targeted to the female population. As many males tend to have a bigger servings of food than females, they are most likely to have ample intake of the necessary nutrients and minerals.
From my own personal opinion about eating well, I honestly think that good advice for eating well is mostly targeted to the female population. As many males tend to have a bigger servings of food than females, they are most likely to have ample intake of the necessary nutrients and minerals.
Famales are very sensitive to their body weight and usually start on a diet to loose weight. This results into loss of necessary nutrients and they will not eat in proper servings. Skipping meals are common among them and this is not good for their health at all. Many female teenagers should be targeted to advice them about the do's and don'ts of eating.
Moreover, I think that Nutritional Tools are one of the good tools to follow and live a healthy life. Families should be more aware of these tools so that they can cook/eat healthier meals.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 ; ♥
Food Composition Table
This is an example a food composition table of fruits and vegetables. Click for a better view of it. The composition of food can vary widely, depending on certain factors: variety of plant or animal, growing and feeding conditions or food of freshness. It contains information on 274 foods and 93 nutrients, which is updated in 2000.
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Nutrition Facts Table
If you have noticed, every food packaging/tin has a Nutritional fact Table on it. It is good to refer to the table to compare other similar food products to find out which is the more healthier choice. Some products also contain the Healthier Choice Logo which looks like this:
If you have noticed, every food packaging/tin has a Nutritional fact Table on it. It is good to refer to the table to compare other similar food products to find out which is the more healthier choice. Some products also contain the Healthier Choice Logo which looks like this:
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Personal advice
I feel that teenagers should keep a healthy diet now that they are still growing and going through puperty. They should have a healthy diet from young so that it will be a habit as they start to grow. Keeping a healthy weight not consisting of eating correctly but teenagers also have to exercise as they are growing the fastest during the puperty stage. When they exercise, they can also build up their muscles as well. This will benefit the teenagers. If teenagers continue to lead a healthy way of life, they will be free from diseases. A balanced diet includes a variety of food, rice and alternatives, fruits and vegetables, meat and alternatives and oil, fats and sugar. Adapting a healthy and balanced diet will allow the teenagers to lead a carefree and cheerful life.
I feel that teenagers should keep a healthy diet now that they are still growing and going through puperty. They should have a healthy diet from young so that it will be a habit as they start to grow. Keeping a healthy weight not consisting of eating correctly but teenagers also have to exercise as they are growing the fastest during the puperty stage. When they exercise, they can also build up their muscles as well. This will benefit the teenagers. If teenagers continue to lead a healthy way of life, they will be free from diseases. A balanced diet includes a variety of food, rice and alternatives, fruits and vegetables, meat and alternatives and oil, fats and sugar. Adapting a healthy and balanced diet will allow the teenagers to lead a carefree and cheerful life.
-Vivian
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Cooking Can Be Emotional? (:
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Advice From The Experts
I came across this website that might interest teenagers in eating well and staying fit! The website is here : http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Healthy
Here are some of the good advices they provide!
1) Importance of breakfast.
Many people do because they don't feel they need to eat breakfast, or they just don't feel hungry first thing in the morning. Research shows that people who skip breakfast are usually fatter than those who eat a well balanced breakfast. Although you might not feel hungry first thing in the morning, if you skip breakfast you will feel extra hungry come lunch time, making you more prone to overeating for your afternoon meal.
In addition, skipping breakfast makes your body think that you are starving. After all, by lunch time, you may not have eaten in almost eighteen hours. For the rest of the day after you skip breakfast, your body will store up most of the energy you get from food, instead of allowing you to burn it, in anticipation of food scarcity. Not only will this cause you to be tired during the day when your body isn't using the food that you ate, but the extra energy stored up will result in weight gain.
2)Importance of Carbohydrates
You need to eat foods high in carbs since they are your body's main source of energy. The trick is to choose the right carbs. Simple carbs like sugar and processed flour are quickly absorbed by the body's digestive system. This causes a kind of carb overload, and your body releases huge amounts of insulin to combat the overload.
Not only is the excess insulin bad on your heart, but it encourages weight gain. Insulin is the main hormone in your body responsible for fat storage. Eat plenty of carbs, but eat carbs that are slowly digested by the body like whole grain flour, hearty vegetables, oats, and unprocessed grains like brown rice.
These kinds of food not only contain complex carbs that are slowly digested by the body, but are usually higher in vitamins and other nutrients that are beneficial to the body and they are higher in fiber which keeps your digestive system running smoothly.
3) Eating can be fun!
Avoiding simple carbs and fatty foods doesn't need to be boring. Have fun not only with the food, but with the meal. Eating with family and friends makes the meal more satisfying than eating in front of the TV or in the car on the way home from work. You will also eat more slowly when enjoying your meal, which gives your body time to feel full before you burst a button.
There are more creative cooking resources available to us than ever before. You can find great tasting recipes in magazines, books, and right here on the Internet. Eating baked fish three or four times a week can get boring, so do a little recipe hunting to find more exciting ways to prepare your meals.
There are more advices when you visit the given link so be sure to check it out! ;D
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 ; ♥
ABCs of Healthy Eating
A - Aim for fitness: keep a healthy weight and be physically active everyday. Examples of sports are swimming, jogging, basketball, tennis. Exercise about thrice a week, 1 hour per session. Intake is equal to output, so the amount of food consume should be exercise out so that a healthy weight can be maintain.
B - Build a healthy base: Follow the Healthy Diet Food Pyramid to guide the food choices. Eat a variety of food, ranging from grains to fruits, vegetables, meat and oil and fats. 5-7 servings of rice and alternatives, 2 servings of fruits and vegetables each, 3-5 servings of meat and alternatives and little amount of oil and fats.
C - Choose sensibly: Choose a diet that is healthy by reducing the intake of the sugar and fats, increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables. Drink fruits juices instead of soft drinks or alcholic drinks. Eat fried food not more than twice a week. Have a range of fruits and vegetables and not just stick to a specific fruits and vegetables to get the necessary amount of nutrients.
The aim for this goes into the details on how to evaluate your weight and
manage your weight. It also shows the teenagers how to keep a healthy diet
through their intake of food and the range of exercises.
A - Aim for fitness: keep a healthy weight and be physically active everyday. Examples of sports are swimming, jogging, basketball, tennis. Exercise about thrice a week, 1 hour per session. Intake is equal to output, so the amount of food consume should be exercise out so that a healthy weight can be maintain.
B - Build a healthy base: Follow the Healthy Diet Food Pyramid to guide the food choices. Eat a variety of food, ranging from grains to fruits, vegetables, meat and oil and fats. 5-7 servings of rice and alternatives, 2 servings of fruits and vegetables each, 3-5 servings of meat and alternatives and little amount of oil and fats.
C - Choose sensibly: Choose a diet that is healthy by reducing the intake of the sugar and fats, increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables. Drink fruits juices instead of soft drinks or alcholic drinks. Eat fried food not more than twice a week. Have a range of fruits and vegetables and not just stick to a specific fruits and vegetables to get the necessary amount of nutrients.
The aim for this goes into the details on how to evaluate your weight and
manage your weight. It also shows the teenagers how to keep a healthy diet
through their intake of food and the range of exercises.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/clinical_nutrition/101728
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The RDA System
The Recommended Dietary Allowances (or RDA for short) is one of the several nutritional tools that can be used to plan a balanced and healthy meal for one person or even a group of people all together. Nutritional Tools apply to the local context and generally depend on the age and also the gender of an individual.
Other Examples of Nutritional Tools are:
ABC's of Healthy Eating.
The Singapore Healthy Diet Pyramid.
Food Composition Tables.
But for now, we will focus on the RDA System. The other tools will generally be posted on the blog for more information. (:
The following RDA Table serve as a guide for the recommended daily levels of nutrients needed by healthy individuals.
Other Examples of Nutritional Tools are:
ABC's of Healthy Eating.
The Singapore Healthy Diet Pyramid.
Food Composition Tables.
But for now, we will focus on the RDA System. The other tools will generally be posted on the blog for more information. (:
The following RDA Table serve as a guide for the recommended daily levels of nutrients needed by healthy individuals.
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Singapore Healthy Diet Pyramid
The Pyramid shows what one should eat everyday. It is a guide to allow everyone to stay healthy. It allows us to eat a variety of food with the correct amount of nutrients needed so that one can stay healthy. In this way, everybody will be able to stay healthy.
At the top of the pyramid is the fats, oil, sugar and salt. Examples of such food is cooking oil, butter, margarine, sugars, sweet desserts, seasonings and sauces. They are high in calories but low in other nutrions so they should be taken in small amount.
The next level of the Healthy Diet Pyramid is meat and alternatives. These food are beef, lamb, mutton, pork, poultry, milk. Those food are rich in proteins, calcium, iron and zinc. One needs to consume 2-3 servings per day to get the necessary nutrients.
The third level of the Pyramid are fruits and vegetables. Such food includes, fruits like apples, oranges, watermelon, honeydew ; vegetables like cabbage, potatoes, carrots, long beans. They contains vitamins, minerals and fibre which is needed by our body. One should take 2 servings of fruits and vegetables.
The base of Healthy Diet Pyramid should be consume the most are rice and alternatives like noodles, breads, cereals. These are the grains of all food. One should consume the most per day, which is 5-7 servings.
